£610 a week pension demand is insane

[Thisismyfinesthour]

Just read that there is an online petition doing the rounds for a £610 a WEEK pension demand to the government.
WTAF? Is the heat melting some peoples brains? It seems over 5000 have signed it.
Where do they think the money is coming from?

@Letskeepcalm she'd get my vote. I like a politician that can communicate uncomfortable truths

Ditto, me too. We've had too many soft politicians unable/unwilling to tackle the unpopular, but necessary changes we need. Especially those rolling over so they don't risk the "grey vote".

It cost Theresa May her majority. People just didn't want to hear it so almost in let a raging communist who never missed a chance to befriend Britain's enemies, through the back door.

Well, this overpaid pensioner is signing off, you'll be glad to know - off on holiday tomorrow ( not a cruise, a staycation ).
I'm having a holiday from looking after grandchildren 40 hours a week, helping out our kids with nursery costs free of charge, because that's what grandparents do.

I hope to hell my kids don't begrude me my pension.

Mine won’t. Have a lovely holiday 😊

Have a relaxing holiday 😎 hope the weather's kind to you .

Selfish old me has just ordered flowers for my DIL because her Papa died. I really shouldn't use my "welfare" for frivolous purposes like this.

I would say most pensioners are finding life tough, food costs are a fortune, cost of living is a big part..

Let’s hope the militant mob have given up.
Those receiving a pension currently are getting what someone else once calculated would be affordable. If that turned out through circumstances to be wrong, then correction needs to be made, but that’d have to be over a long term, and how and when that’d be, who’d have any idea.
The idea that I did wrong by working hard, investing in pensions, saving by doing without I find incomprehensible.
So could the militant let me know just we can truly be to blame?

Oh no. Apparently if you saved and paid into workplace pensions you’re greedy for claiming the “welfare” that you worked for 43 years paying tax and NI for.

I think they’d rather we all disappeared before we hit state pension age.

None of us worked or brought up children either

We are welfare recipients who don’t even deserve what we were promised at 17.

Tell your young people to vote then. Many don't even bother.

Nulla posted 5 or 6 posts countering many of the claims posted previously. 2 posters reacted and 1 of them was to complain about personal attacks yet again of which there were none that should upset anyone. Maybe the fact finder general has no counterclaims. However Nulla has now gone.

Banned?

No, I’m not banned. I just had to get back to work.

That would be ironically amusing if they did vote to cut the state pension because then it won’t even cover their weekly shop by the time ‘the young’ are grey haired and dreaming of stopping work before they drop dead.
(that’s an uncomfortable truth, so vote for me)

I tried to tag you in a post and it said your account didn't exist. 😅anyhow, here you are .

I worked for 50 years and two weeks!

Like I said, I’ve done my time and paid far more than my fair share of tax already, so I’m retiring.